Stilby
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Windows 7 Enterprise 90 day (64bit)
A big improvement over 7 RC which would hang if I attempted any file sharing with my Ubuntu Samba share. However, now I can read my shares but can't write to a writeable share with guest access. I have added the cridetials 'guest' with no password and that maintains the mapped drives between reboots but I can't write. I can of course write to the share in Leopard, Snow Leopard, Xp and OpenSolaris but not from Windows 7. I'm half expecting someone to tell me it's a security feature which needs to be unlocked using a program which doesn't appear in any menu and has to be run from the Start Menu or perhaps in the registry but how can writing a file to another system be a security issue?
Any pointers at all will be welcomed, even speculative ones. Let me know if you can write to your Samba shares. My smb.conf is very simple but I've written more complex ones in my time. If I can fix it at that end, that would be fine too, better in fact as I don't administer all the systems that connect to this share.
(As an aside: As you can see I have a number of different systems available to me so please feel free to ask me to test or reproduce problems you might be having.)
Stilby AKA Mike Freeman IRL
A big improvement over 7 RC which would hang if I attempted any file sharing with my Ubuntu Samba share. However, now I can read my shares but can't write to a writeable share with guest access. I have added the cridetials 'guest' with no password and that maintains the mapped drives between reboots but I can't write. I can of course write to the share in Leopard, Snow Leopard, Xp and OpenSolaris but not from Windows 7. I'm half expecting someone to tell me it's a security feature which needs to be unlocked using a program which doesn't appear in any menu and has to be run from the Start Menu or perhaps in the registry but how can writing a file to another system be a security issue?
Any pointers at all will be welcomed, even speculative ones. Let me know if you can write to your Samba shares. My smb.conf is very simple but I've written more complex ones in my time. If I can fix it at that end, that would be fine too, better in fact as I don't administer all the systems that connect to this share.
(As an aside: As you can see I have a number of different systems available to me so please feel free to ask me to test or reproduce problems you might be having.)
Stilby AKA Mike Freeman IRL